[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION

["Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@gentoo.org>]

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Petteri Räty schrieb:
> Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:40 +0300
>> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION
>>> atoms?
>> Yep. Have a look at sys-devel/gcc for example. Some versions include
>> various extensions, and say so in DESCRIPTION.
>>
> 
> I did say in my original mail that there are ebuilds building dynamic
> DESCRIPTION variables but the my question was that does anything make
> use of their dynamic nature. I think for example eix only looks at the
> latest.

Because it spuriously assumes that only the latest one is relevant and
it therefore doesn't do any ${PV} substitution (which is correct
behavior under this assumption).



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